Necktie-holder.



R. LE PiNE.

NECKTIEHOLDER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. s. 1911.

Patented May 8, 1917.

mzwma ROBERT LIE IPINE, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

NECKTIE-I-IOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 8, 11917.

Application filed February 8, 1917. Serial No. 147,304.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Ronnn'r LEPINE, a citizen of Russla, and a resident of New York city, in the county and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful. Improvements in Necktie-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a necktie holder of novel construction which is adapted to be infolded within a necktie so that the latter may be secured to the shirt without requiring the tie to be drawn through the collar and to be folded at each application. The holder is of simple construction may be easily applied to the tie, will present the latter in an attractive manner, and may be securely attached to the collar button.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l is a front view of a necktie holder embodying my invention, showing the same applied to a tie;

Fig. 2, a similar view of the holder, showing the same without the tie;

Fig. 3, a rear view;

Fig. at, a section on line 4- l Fig. 3;

Fig. 5, a section on line 5--5 Fig. 3;

Fig. 6, a detail of the holder securing means;

Fig. 7, a rear view of a modification of the holder, and, Fig. 8 a plan of the lower portion of the holder.

The holder, which may be made of sheet metal, wire or other resilient material, is composed of a transverse member formed of a pair of bars 1, that merge at their inner ends into the parallel rims 2 and 3 of an elongated transverse eye or slot at. From the outer ends of bars 1, project a pair of longitudinal members comprising the inner rims 5 of a pair of elongated eyes 6, that extend at right angles to eye 4:. The outer rim 7 of each eye 6 is divided at its center to form a passage 8 that opens into eye 6, and permits. the ready threading of the necktie edgewise into the latter.

From the center of upper rim 2, there projects forwardly and downwardly a nose 9 which is adapted to properly sustain the knot of the tie. This nose tapers from the top downward toward its point, while the upper end of the nose is contracted to form a neck which is composed of a pair of bars 10 that form continuations of th inner divided ends of rim 2. Thus the nose besides sustaining the tie, performs the additional function of connecting the right and left sections of the holder into one integral structure. The lower rim 3 of eye at is likewise slitted or divided at its center, and from the inner end of each rim moiety there depends an apertured lug 11, which carries a finger piece 12, the lug on, say the left side being doubled.

The rim section 3 of say the left or doubled lug 11, is provided with an arm 13 furnished with a hook or guide 1a that straddles rim section 3 of the right lug 11, and serves to insure the proper movement of the latter into or away from the left lug. Thus after the tie has been applied to the holder in manner hereinafter described, the lugs 11 are drawn toward each other by means of their finger pieces 12, until they will overlie or assume a concentric position (Fig. 6). The collar button is then passed through both of the lugs and the finger pieces 12 are released, whereupon the resiliency of the divided rim section 3, will cause the lugs to exercise a pull in oppo site directions upon the button and to thus lock the device securely to the shirt, the button being held against tilting by the fact that the right lug is inclosed between the two sections of the doubled left lug. The inner rims of lugs 11, are concaved to form an intervening slitted opening (Fig. 3), which may likewise be used for the reception of the collar button at the option of the wearer.

In use, the necktie 15, is threaded through the right eye 6, passed over top of nose 9 along the front of the holder and threaded through the left eye. The left end of the tie is folded over nose 9, the right end of the tie is doubled over the nose, and over the folded left end; it is then drawnfrom the bottom upward along the b ack of the holder through eye at, and is finally drawn downward along the front of the holder over the nose and beneath the doubled tie section previously formed. In this way, the tie will become affixed to the holder in a neat and permanent manner, and the holder thus charged may be securely clamped to the collar button in manner previously described.

With the embodiment illustrated in Fig. 7, the apertured lugs 11, together with the arm 13 and guide 14 are omitted. The two moieties of rim 3 are provided with depending concaved jaws 16 between which the collar button is adapted to be sprung.

I claim:

1. A necktie holder comprising a slotted transverse member having an upper rim and a lower rim, a nose that tapers from its top toward its lower pointed end and has an upper contracted neck integral with the upper rim, collar-button engaging means depending from the lower rim, and a pair of longitudinal end members having eyes and slotted outer rims that form passages which open into said eyes.

2. A necktie holder comprising a slitted' resilient transverse member having an elongated slot, a pair of longitudmal end members having elongated eyes that extend at an Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the angle to said slot, and a plurality of aper tured lugs depending from the transverse member and adapted to be alined to permit the insertion of a collar-button, and means normally tending to separate the same.

3. A necktie holder comprising a sectional resilient transverse member having an elongated slot, a pair of longitudinal end members having elongated eyes that extend at an angle to said slot, a pair of apertured lugs depending from one section of the transverse member, and an apertured lug depend ing from the other section of said transverse member, said last named lug being adapted to be interposed between the two first named lugs.

ROBERT LEPINE.

Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. G. 

